Of course prayer changes things. Even if you take the "o" out of God and only approach the phenomenon from a scientific point of view.

Not many can deny anymore the power of positive thinking (another term for prayer). Visualizing even improves performance in sports and can be seen in test results.

Meditating (another term for prayer) before a meal has also proven to have healthful benefits whether you think of God or a beautiful meadow and chirping birds or relaxing music.

The God I pray to isn't limited by human understanding of how things might work out. If I pray for rain and someone else is praying for it not to rain, who gets their prayer answered? Both! God knows the best answer to give for all involved. God isn't a wishing well (although He has a better record of wishes coming true than a wishing well does) where you simply toss in your request and hope for the best, cursing Him when you don't get your way.

The nice thing about my personal experience with God is that He isn't just a fantasy, He's very real and the answers I get are also very real - and easy to understand. But I've had years of experience and use the Bible to understand what is happening - that's where the whole prayer thing (to God) is fully documented in case you want to know how it's supposed to work.

As always, never take what someone says about the Bible as fact. Read it for yourself. You'll be amazed at what is actually there (as opposed to what people SAY is there).

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